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  • Summer Learning Loss May Be Overblown

    Summer Learning Loss May Be Overblown0

    When it comes to news articles about the impact that summer has on student learning, the news is often bad. For instance, The Economist proclaimed in 2018: “Long summer holidays are bad for children, especially the poor.” This headline is fairly typical of how summer loss is portrayed. Summer has come to be seen as

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  • Who Is for Middle America?

    Who Is for Middle America?0

    The late Edward Abbey, an irascible and irreverent American environmentalist, took aim at the immigration ideologues in terms still relevant for our time: “The conservatives love their cheap labor; the liberals love their cheap cause.” In other words, if the Republican Party and the Democratic Party can silently agree on one thing, it is that immigration is

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  • A Medical Dean Sees a Fishing Knot and Calls It a Hate Crime

    A Medical Dean Sees a Fishing Knot and Calls It a Hate Crime0

    What happens at the University of Michigan Medical School when an employee practices making fishing knots with surgical rope and the knot is found? The dean of the medical school, Dr. Marschall Runge, jumped to the conclusion that the knot was a noose; a hate crime had occurred: We have taken immediate action to have

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  • Millennials: Stop Talking About ‘Adulting’ and Become Adults

    Millennials: Stop Talking About ‘Adulting’ and Become Adults0

    My 20-year-old son recently returned home from his first year away at university. Of course, he did not arrive empty-handed: he brought with him several bags stuffed full of dirty laundry. It’s clearly people like my son that the UK’s Department for Education has in mind when it announced plans this week for a “new masterclass to

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  • The Growing Tyranny of Political Correctness and Mass Media

    The Growing Tyranny of Political Correctness and Mass Media0

    Have you ever feared that something you posted on Facebook, or something you once said to a friend online just might get you fired one day? Many Americans do.   The typical American’s situation is similar to that of your average Chinese citizen. In China, Xi Jinping’s totalitarian regime has bound media, social networks, and the

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  • What If Charity Replaced Taxation?

    What If Charity Replaced Taxation?0

    Health care. Education. Among others, these goods have been considered so important that most current governments make a huge effort to provide them to people with inadequate incomes. Surely, it would be crazy to deny how important these goods are. In a 2016 survey conducted by Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) titled “The 2016 US

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